Satyricon Petronius Quotes & Sayings

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like it, a chance to stop going along with it. This important film provides precisely that insight and that opportunity. — Bill Maher

All of a sudden the world opened up
and it's doing it again now.
In this garden there are so many stories,
so many other problems besides mine. — Samantha Schutz

I was thinking of the Cumaean Sybil, who lived for a thousand years, so long that she shrank and was put in an urn. Eliot quoted it as epigraph for 'The Waste Land,' from Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon, 'For once I saw with my own eyes the Cumaean Sibyl hanging in a jar. When the boys asked her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she said, "I want to die. — Lauren Groff

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained. — Harold Evans

A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt — Dennis O'Neil

Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit. — Jerry Bridges

Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey. — Bee Wilson

The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children. — Cory Booker

from Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon, 'For once I saw with my own eyes the Cumaean Sibyl hanging in a jar. When the boys asked her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she said, "I want to die." '" Long — Lauren Groff

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel